Senior Transport Operations Manager

CompanyUnipart

LocationEast Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/21/2026

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Occupation Type

Managers in transport and distribution

Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled

Sponsorship Salary Threshold

£44,900 (£23.03 per hour)

Occupation rate applies

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Description

Senior Transport Operations Manager

East Midlands Gateway

£60,000 plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job

You will lead Transport contractual delivery, evolution, and development for the contracts within your area, ensuring the effective operation of the Transport function, and further develop integrated transport solutions to deliver a premium and cost effective service. You will produce, agree, and manage the budget, accounting for any variances, taking a proactive approach in order to fully engage any new initiatives at the depot, ensuring the integration of projects is successful in line with business needs. You will deliver operational and customer service excellence through innovation, continuous improvement, effective process management and effective leadership.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

Provide effective leadership and direction to the Transport Department
Proactively seek optimisation without affecting service

Actively promote and take responsibility for embedding a culture of employee engagement within your own teams and their direct reports

Be accountable for setting operational objectives for your team in accordance with business plan and targets

Drive quality of performance and shape the management team to deliver effective people management in line with policy and employment law regulations

Be responsible for compliance with health and safety regulations and environmental and quality standards

Integrate and control new cross dock clients where applicable

Be responsible for the interface between every area of the operation to ensure efficiency and effectiveness

Manage a group of approved 3rd party hauliers on national or international journey

Propose, agree, and implement service standard agreements for products with customers in conjunction with other areas of the business

Support Unipart in regard to reducing its carbon footprint, for example recycling initiatives

Be the site lead for in the Interface with all major customers including implementation meetings, customer reviews and other ad hoc meetings as required

Be named and responsible for ensuring the Unipart’s Operator Licence is maintained efficiently and accurately at all times, and carry out contingency planning to avoid exposure to the Operator Licences

Be accountable for the delivery of continuous improvement initiatives

Be accountable for the proactive management of new legislation

Be accountable for performance against key KPI measures

Lead the Retailer Interface in regard to Key supplier management for quality and cost

Lead project success through the design implementation and delivery of all breakthrough projects

and responsibilities in accordance with case merits

Accountable for embedding ‘The Unipart Way’ at all levels

About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Professional and confident communication skills
Good management skills in terms of both contract and people management
Pragmatic approach to problem solving
Planning and organising skills, high level of numeracy
Negotiating skills, ability to influence and steer

Leadership and motivational qualities and proven experience of building a team

Personal motivation and confidence to have a positive impact

Robust and resilient

Able to work efficiently across the business and functional boundaries

Commercially focussed and bottom-line oriented

Consumer oriented and customer-service driven

IOSH

National CPC is a must, International CPC is an advantage

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.